IntroductionIn 2020, scientists detected a gas called phosphine in the atmosphere of an Earth-size rocky planet. Knowing of no way that phosphine could be...

Mar 13, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Physicists often turn to the Rayleigh-Taylor instability to explain why fluid structures form in plasmas, but that may not be...

The first direct observation of water on the surface of an asteroid has been made using an airborne near-infrared telescope. Water was detected on...

Feb 22, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Supernovae are the spectacular end result of the collapse of stars more massive than 8-10 times the mass of the...

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — NASA has selected an ultraviolet observatory for development but will delay its launch by two years because of budget challenges. NASA announced...

SpaceX launched an environmental research satellite for NASA early Thursday, a nearly $1 billion spacecraft that survived multiple cancellation threats and is now poised...

Jan 31, 2024 (Nanowerk News) For the past year and a half, the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered astonishing images of distant galaxies formed...

To describe Federico Capasso at Harvard University as a prolific researcher is an understatement and I have been following his work in photonics for...

IntroductionIn the early 2000s, it seemed that cosmologists had solved the largest and most complex puzzle of all: how the universe works. “There was this...

Jan 10, 2024 (Nanowerk News) Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller...

HELSINKI — India’s Aditya-L1 solar observatory has reached its destination orbit around Sun-Earth Lagrange point 1 around 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. Aditya-L1 entered orbit...

From the fastest woman to run across the US to the mechanics of dancing peanuts, physics has had its fair share of quirky stories this year....